Soft & glazed

Find your next recipe for the Christmas cookie tray.

Soft vanilla cookies with ricotta, a light lemon glaze and festive sprinkles.

Tender little cookies with anise extract and a thin sugar glaze.

Little lemon-scented dough knots with a bright glaze, lovely on a Christmas tray.

Soft ricotta cookies with fresh orange zest and a bright citrus glaze.

Soft ricotta cookies with fresh lemon zest and a bright citrus glaze.

Tender vanilla dough knots with a thin glaze and festive sprinkles.

Tender knotted cookies with warm cinnamon and a light sugar coating.

Sardinian-style raisin and almond diamonds with a white sugar cap and colorful sprinkles, using a simple egg-free glaze.

An orange-led home variation on Sardinian raisin diamonds, with walnuts, almonds and a thin citrus sugar cap.

Neapolitan-style rectangular shortcrust pastries around a cocoa and sour-cherry cake-crumb filling, with a baked white glaze.

Soft ricotta domes with ground pistachios, a thin milk glaze and chopped nut tops; an Italian-inspired home adaptation.

Soft coffee-scented ricotta cookies with a thin espresso glaze, an Italian-inspired home flavor variation.

Soft ricotta cookies with dried cranberry flecks, orange zest and a light citrus glaze; a festive home adaptation.

Small Palermo-style cocoa and almond cookie domes with a thin dark cocoa-sugar coating, made without pastry scraps or raw-egg icing.

Calabrian-style egg-dough rings, boiled, scored around their outer edge and baked before receiving an opaque egg-free lemon sugar coat.

Soft vanilla-seed ricotta domes with a vanilla-flecked milk glaze, an Italian-style home adaptation.

Soft ricotta cookies sweetened partly with honey, scented with lemon zest and topped with a thin honey-lemon glaze; an Italian-style home adaptation.

Lemon-zest and crushed-anise dough knots with a thin lemon glaze, an Italian-style home adaptation.

Golden orange-zest dough knots sweetened partly with honey and finished with a thin orange-honey glaze; an Italian-style home adaptation.

Small bake-only lemon shortcrust rings with a thin white lemon icing, adapted from Italian sweet taralli recipes rather than boiled egg-dough rings.